Kamala Harris lost to
President-elect Donald J. Trump in a landslide on election night.
Tensions between the vice president and Joe Biden’s camps have been
simmering for weeks. It’s now an all-out war as both sides use their
media contacts to leak damning information about the other. The blame
game and the second Democratic Party Civil War—the first one pushed
Biden out—will be nasty. What went wrong? That will be the central theme
of the postmortems of a campaign that was indeed confident of victory,
only to be left gutted, burned, and wholly ruined on election night.
They’re falling apart…pic.twitter.com/xJGpLxljhA
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) November 10, 2024
HARRIS SURROGATE: "It was a red wedding. It was a bloodbath." pic.twitter.com/xuaCJqUda8
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 6, 2024
Right
now, Trump reigns supreme. It was a MAGA landslide, as he made gains
with every voter demographic in the country. Every state, except
Washington, saw a shift to the right. He won one in three voters of
color—just a brutal repudiation of the elite, regional, and myopic
Democratic Party who thought abortion would be their primary wave to
victory. You knew the issues in this cycle; the Democrats didn’t. It
wasn’t saving democracy or reproductive rights but the economy and
immigration.
CNN forced to realize exactly how HUGE Trump’s win actually was 👇 pic.twitter.com/mvQmoBk4ET
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 8, 2024
CNN’s
Harry Enten broke down the MAGA tsunami, but The Washington Post’s
lengthy piece about how the Kamala train derailed is just as
entertaining as it is brutal. Not that you didn’t know this, but the
Democrats’ Trump derangement syndrome crept into the messaging, where it
cannibalized precious time and energy that should have been devoted to
Kamala defining herself and her agenda as she untethered herself from
the Biden White House. Yes, Kamala didn’t have the intelligence to pull
this off, but it doesn’t help when your staff is way too engulfed in
social media activity than reaching working-class voters.
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The average liberal is so out of touch they actually thought Kamala would win Florida pic.twitter.com/QSe7Ek24Wy
— Alec Sears (@alec_sears) November 10, 2024
The
article points out, again, what you already knew: the lack of
significant labor union endorsements was a red flag as it showed
substantial amounts of the Teamsters’ rank-and-file, for example, were
going to vote for Trump. Currently, the Trump movement mirrors Obama’s
winning ’08 coalition more. It’s a multiracial working-class
party—that’s very hard to beat, especially when the Democrats’ base is
now too small to win national contests. There aren’t enough celebrities
and snobby college-educated whites to put candidates over the top. The
Kamala operation ran a campaign that reeked of the political class, and
voters punished them dearly for it. We’ve said this before: the backbone
of the Democrats, working-class voters, has dissolved. More accurately,
it’s been removed by the woke, far-left loons who have weaseled their
way into the top echelons of party fundraising, communications, and
strategy. Now, the Left is paralyzed (via WaPo):
…a
consensus has already emerged that the party failed to understand the
average voter and their concerns — and focused too much on Trump,
according to interviews with more than two dozen campaign aides,
advisers, strategists and others, many of whom spoke on the condition of
anonymity to share candid opinions about the party’s loss.
[…]
Some
Biden loyalists, meanwhile, fault the Obama-era technocrats, who they
say first sniped at Biden from the outside — hobbling his candidacy —
only to join the Harris campaign and cast themselves as saviors, armed
with good data but a poor understanding of American anger in this
moment. And others still have cast some blame on O’Malley Dillon, who
they argue was a micromanager and whose team failed to win over voters
on issues they cared about most, like immigration and the economy.
[…]
Another
group has begun to question a key assumption of many party strategists
during the Biden years — that the central force in American politics was
the backlash to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v.
Wade and the rejection of MAGA politics.
“It’s very simple: If
you try to win elections by talking to the elites of this country,
you’re going to get your ass kicked — there are not enough Beyonces,
Oprahs or Hollywood elites to elect anyone,” said Chris Kofinis, former
chief of staff to Sen. Joe Manchin III (I-West Virginia). “Trump is not
the disease. He is the symptom. The disease is political, cultural, and
economic elites who keep telling the public what they should think, feel
and believe — and guess what they told them on Tuesday: Go to hell.”
[…]
Two
days after the election, OpenLabs, a Democratic data firm, produced a
“first look” analysis of the results, obtained by The Washington Post.
They found the biggest swings away from Harris were in areas with larger
populations of Asian American and Hispanic voters. They also found that
counties with bigger shares of Muslim and Jewish voters also swung
toward Trump. Two Trump advisers said they could not believe that they
were able, for example, to beat Harris in Dearborn, Michigan.
“Obviously
this is a major reckoning for the Democratic Party in terms of,
particularly as it relates to young men, Black and Hispanic voters and
rural voters,” said Jef Pollock, a Biden and Harris campaign pollster.
“If the economy were perceived by voters as swimming, things might be
different. But for now, it’s clear these voters I’m talking about —
particularly young men, Black men, Hispanic men, and rural White voters —
do not see the Democrats as addressing their everyday needs, and that’s
something we need to think about holistically.”
[…]
Adam
Jentleson, a Democratic strategist who served as chief of staff to Sen.
John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania), similarly criticized the Democratic
Party for having prioritized “coalition management” — essentially
kowtowing to far-left interest groups — over “the smart and effective
practice of politics for many, many years.”
The challenge of
inflation, Jentleson said, became insurmountable in an environment where
large swaths of the country had come to believe that Democrats “are
preoccupied with the narrow interests of college-educated elite
activists more than everyday working people.”
[…]
The
election results, Democrats concede, demonstrate the voters were willing
to overlook Trump’s character — and the Democratic Party suffered
because they focused too much on bashing Trump, and not on how they
would improve voters’ lives.
In other moments, Harris’s campaign
found itself caught flat-footed. When she visited the southern border in
late September, for instance, she and her aides had no idea that the
same afternoon a top official at ICE would release damaging immigration
numbers to a Republican congressman. Her team was shocked when the
numbers emerged as she was in transit to the border, advisers said.
More
broadly, some aides attributed the shift away from Harris in reliably
blue states like New York, New Jersey and Illinois as a repudiation of
the party’s handling of immigration. Many of those states have seen an
influx of migrants, some bused by Republican governors, and Democrats in
major cities have struggled to respond.
When some of the major
unions did not endorse Harris, it was a red flag, advisers said, not
because the unions endorsements on their face would matter that much —
but that leadership clearly knew their members were inclined to vote for
Trump in large margins.
It was a trainwreck of errors. Liz Cheney being elevated to top
GOP-defector surrogate was another blunder. Though there were
sprinklings of Harris advisers bashing Biden, who ironically became a top surrogate for Trump:
He called Trump voters garbage during Kamala’s DC rally, which
cannibalized her earned media moment, wore a MAGA hat in Pennsylvania,
and said Trump should be “locked up…politically.” All of these had
devastating impacts on the messaging of the Harris camp. Counting Biden,
Democratic donors shoveled out $2 billion to get blown out by Trump.
Money can’t polish unqualified candidates. And the fact that January 6
never resonated with voters should have been good enough for liberal
pollsters to know that maybe the ‘threat to democracy’ nonsense was a
loser.
— Alberto E. Martinez (@albertemartinez) November 8, 2024
Staff
also criticized the strategy of negatively defining Trump. They created
“The Three Us: Unhinged, unstable, and unchecked.” Some noted that no
one will remember that. Moreover, Trump has already been president—it doesn’t sell.
The
misreading of the electorate, the abysmal media strategy, and the
inability to communicate with working people and sink deeper into the
liberal echo chamber dominated by an ‘orange man…bad’ theme led to this
abject slaughter. Kamala lost the popular vote and got swept in all
seven swing states.
Based on liberal reactions to this loss, they still don’t get how Trump drove over them in a Komatsu tractor.
This is literally why we lost pic.twitter.com/gWOEOii2Hr
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) November 8, 2024
CNN: Reports of a Harris campaign staff call, which took place yesterday evening.
Leaders on the call had one specific request: "Stop sh*tting on the campaign to the press" 😂
Watch: pic.twitter.com/MJVrR7IT50
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